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... sticks are EVERYWHERE!) Inside the room, there were two nuns sitting piously at the foot of the altar which had the Blessed Sacrament on display. After a few minutes of silent prayer, I led the girls towards the altar where we were able to walk all the way up to it and see the stairs that down to the Tomb of St. Peter. We found the set of stairs off to the side of the altar that led us down to the catacombs and were able to view the tomb of St. Peter at eye level. As we left ...

Once again these giant attraction have wowed us. We started the day at the Vatican City and skipped the queue as we were on a tour we got there around 8.15 and already the line was long. Going into another country meant screening metal detectors and X-raying our bags. We then started through the museum, it was a bit like cattle being herded as there was so many people and you didn't really get time to stop to look at the art for long, the ...

... up early for breakfast and a good job we did as there were 65 more for breakfast than they had ordered food for, and claimed they could not get any more (ERRR there’s a supermarket across the road so weak excuse). Even so we managed to get the last of the bread and meats, and not rushing breakfast hoping that the rain will stop, which it eventually did. So off down into Rome again to take in more sights, We started at the Vatican Museum today in case it ...

... naval battles were put on display here for an audience of about 50,000 people. When I was standing in the Colosseum, it reminded me of being in a football stadium and I tried to imagine being an ancient Roman and watching fights take place down below. After about four centuries of use, the combats were ended by the 6th century AD. The Colosseum ...

... before with a night tour of Castel Sant'Angelo, Commencing at 11pm, it was a bit of an eerie experience walking around the bastions of the old castle in the moonlight, as well as along the passetto which the Popes used to use to escape from the Vatican to the castle in case of danger. We were on the top of the main terrace of the castle, with the lights of ancient Rome sparkling around us, and St Peter’s dome all lit up, as the clock towers around the city struck midnight. ...